I asked Tawny that last week and they didn't know and they didn't even discuss it on set. Of course she could be lying and I'm willing to accept that, but I too was wondering that same question and She at least seemed as interested as I was.
Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 3x01 - "Grounded"
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I asked Tawny that last week and they didn't know and they didn't even discuss it on set. Of course she could be lying and I'm willing to accept that, but I too was wondering that same question and She at least seemed as interested as I was.
the current situation with uniforms, especially around 2381 is incredibly confusing, as new Trek seems intent in adding AT LEAST a new uniform design each year. In universe I’ve decided that Starfleet has several active uniforms at the same time, the choice of which one to use up to the commanding officer or quartermaster, and that’s it.
By the way: they just changed uniforms in Picard season 2, yet season 3 will have yet new uniforms. Argh!
At least I don’t collect uniforms, cosplayers I know are shelling out a lot these days.
I just assumed she didn’t want to be associated with her parents. I mean, that’s exactly what I did when I started playing years ago, avoiding the use of my real name to avoid being linked with mine…
With how large Starfleet would need to be in order to support the Federation I think this is the case.
Hammond Organ.
Nah, it only lasted a year or so, then I felt confident enough to actually use my real surname.
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An instrument whose name is forever doomed to be followed in my mind by the words "take it away, Skutters!"
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Cool. Never seen Red Dwarf.
The only reason I know it is because of this board. Never seen a frame beyond gifs.
A great start to season 3. I gave it an 8. Better than the start of season 2, and about even with the original season 1 pilot. Normally I get annoyed when a show or movie teases a plot that never ends up paying off (Mariner stealing the Cerritos and saving the day). Normally, they would have to have a dynamite twist or something like that for me not feel like I was missing out on the "real" story, but I loved that they resolved it offscreen in the only way it should really be done for LDS and instead focused on our characters' experiences and learning and growing. I would rather get this than some typical, pointless action plot that you might have gotten in a sub-par TNG season 7 or VOY season 1 episode. (Though I really would have loved to have gotten a real Tim Russ cameo.)
RE: the forced mindmeld scene: I think the showrunners totally knew that they were referencing something that is equivalent to torture or even rape. Though it isn't the best idea to include this kind of thing as a minor moment in a side plot of a 22 minute show when you can't even comment on it. Heck Star Trek VI didn't have time (or interest?) in commenting on it beyond Nimoy's acting - where he portrays some understanding that Spock stepped over ethical lines - and they had almost 2 hours of screen time.
My first answer: everything.
My full answer: the characters are great, especially the main 4. I find Shaxs and T'Ana a little one note - though they both have their good bits and I like Shaxs better. I love how passionate they all are about their jobs and Starfleet. I like the continued showing of how Starfleet is good (though per McMahan: they can always do better) as opposed to how some of DIS and PIC show Starfleet. I like the pacing: with only ~22 minutes you got to get everything in you can to feel like a whole episode (PRO episodes always feel only like half a story cause they don't really move like LDS). I find the show often very funny, if not continuously uproarious; I tend to laugh out loud often and in most episodes. I enjoy the references to past Trek and don't mind the "memberberries" aspect of them, because for the most part they are just fun additions and not essential to the plotlines or something the whole show hinges upon (which would get boring). I like that the characters are learning and growing. I like the visuals; it wasn't my preferred animation style when it started, but I have grown to like it and it is always beautiful. But most of all, I think I like the heart that they put into most every episode. Just when you think they are just going to go some standard "sitcom" plot point they throw the heart in the episode: in this one it was the security guards really appreciating ensigns enjoying their job and then again with Freeman's salvation being Starfleet working as it should and doing it in the background as a pure Lower Decks move. The suprising heart moment that I remember most in the series is probably when Rutherford says he wants to switch back from Security to Engineering and, instead of getting mad, Shaxs and the rest of security division cheer him on for choosing to be himself.
RE: the forced mindmeld scene: I think the showrunners totally knew that they were referencing something that is equivalent to torture or even rape. Though it isn't the best idea to include this kind of thing as a minor moment in a side plot of a 22 minute show when you can't even comment on it. Heck Star Trek VI didn't have time (or interest?) in commenting on it beyond Nimoy's acting - where he portrays some understanding that Spock stepped over ethical lines - and they had almost 2 hours of screen time.
My first answer: everything.
My full answer: the characters are great, especially the main 4. I find Shaxs and T'Ana a little one note - though they both have their good bits and I like Shaxs better. I love how passionate they all are about their jobs and Starfleet. I like the continued showing of how Starfleet is good (though per McMahan: they can always do better) as opposed to how some of DIS and PIC show Starfleet. I like the pacing: with only ~22 minutes you got to get everything in you can to feel like a whole episode (PRO episodes always feel only like half a story cause they don't really move like LDS). I find the show often very funny, if not continuously uproarious; I tend to laugh out loud often and in most episodes. I enjoy the references to past Trek and don't mind the "memberberries" aspect of them, because for the most part they are just fun additions and not essential to the plotlines or something the whole show hinges upon (which would get boring). I like that the characters are learning and growing. I like the visuals; it wasn't my preferred animation style when it started, but I have grown to like it and it is always beautiful. But most of all, I think I like the heart that they put into most every episode. Just when you think they are just going to go some standard "sitcom" plot point they throw the heart in the episode: in this one it was the security guards really appreciating ensigns enjoying their job and then again with Freeman's salvation being Starfleet working as it should and doing it in the background as a pure Lower Decks move. The suprising heart moment that I remember most in the series is probably when Rutherford says he wants to switch back from Security to Engineering and, instead of getting mad, Shaxs and the rest of security division cheer him on for choosing to be himself.
Very well said and I agree with about everything. This show has so much heart and isn't as cynical as many shows tend to be today. I rarely laugh out loud at anything in the show (and when did this become the standard for comedy anyway?), but I'm smiling all the way through watching it. I love the characters, the voice actors, the positivity, the designs … Let's be honest, an animated Star Trek comedy could have gone wrong in so many ways, but they truly managed to create something that just feels right and special.
It's just the lower decks uniform with the top and bottom colours swapped
Might just be an animation error.
It actually looks better than the regular ones reversed.
For fun, this is the 2380-era uniform with colors swapped (command division), plus the ops version from the pic:
Looks great.
EDIT: Only for USA/Canada, AFAIK?
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It's blocked in the EU, but when I follow the link it's a video on the official Paramount+ YouTube channel, so it's apparently legit. They did a similar thing with the premiere episodes of seasons one and two as well.You know better than that.
No piracy here, please.
Ah, sorry - I knew they did it for S1 so I did click to check, but I'm in the EU so just got the unavailable link.
Ah, ok. I remember that did that internationally For Season One, but only for a few days.
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